After two days, life becomes hard. You cannot freely fetch water from the local river because you fear for your life. There is smoke and screams everywhere. Your livestock is stolen. You cannot feed your children well.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
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Life gets tougher. You cannot make calls because the government has cut out the network. It all becomes dark. You cannot watch the news. It is bad. You also start feeling the punch.
After four days, your attackers are repulsed. You hear that your enemies are advancing towards your village and they have received reinforcement You hear that they are regrouping, and are heavily armed. You start fearing. You wonder why there was war in the first place anyway.
Your children are hungry. They are afraid. You are disillusioned.
Then your village is attacked. The same attacks are in other villages and shanty slums in cities. You collect your little belongings and run to the police station. Your daughter trips and breaks her leg. Then some old man tells your your son has fallen in the war. You are not emotional. Not sad even. You seem to be out of touch with time, with the world.
“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
― The Prince and the Pauper
An arrow goes through your left thigh as you run for safety. You just drag yourself along. You are still alive.
Reaching the police station, it is overcrowded. You have to share a tent. A leaking tent. The hygiene there is terrible. The sanitation do not befit a human being.Then you realize you are not with your daughter. You try to look for her. Then you find out that in the camp there is a Njoroge, an Atieno, a Bakari, a Wekesa, a Kipkorir, a Nyambane and others.
“Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.”
― The Prince and the Pauper
Your leg is rotting. You cannot find your darling daughter. People start dying, and you start wondering who is fighting who? Everyone is in the camp, and you have the same problem, you come to realize, the government doesn't create commotion or tear peace apart, its me and you.
When your player is playing chess, look very carefully so that when they fail they don't carry you into their failing pattern, don't let them use you as the scapegoat to console their failure, even at school you failed alone, not with your fellow students, teachers or parents.
Your end year certificate,read your name not theirs. ''Buoyancy of your head, can't stop you from sinking''
Tafakari!!!!!
Read below In 1992 - Angola - 10year civil war
2005 Ethiopia - 200 dead
2007/2008 Kenya - 1500 dead
2010 Ivory Coast - 3000 Dead
https://africaupclose.wilsoncenter.org/election-violence-and-the-future-of-democracy-in-africa/
Election-related violence has been a growing trend in African countries since the wave of democracy that swept across the continent in 1990s. The 1992 election in Angola led to a 10-year civil war in the country that resulted in thousands of deaths. Following the 2005 election in Ethiopia, election-related violence led to about 200 deaths. In Kenya, the 2007/2008 election left about 1500 people dead. The 2010 presidential election in Ivory Coast recorded about 3000 deaths. Following the commencement of the fourth republic, after a protracted military rule in Nigeria, most of the elections held in the country have been characterized by violence, and thousands of people have died in election-related violence. The Human Rights Watch recorded that more than 800 people died during the 2011 election violence in Nigeria. Similar trends have been recorded in Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Gambia, Rwanda, Ghana, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in others, where thousands of people have been killed and properties damaged following election violence. This trend is a threat to the survival of democracy and human security on the continent, and there is an urgent need to address it.Between 2011 and 2017, over 100 elections were held in 44 African countries. Almost all the elections witnessed violence during stages of the elections. The pre-election campaign, election days, and post-election periods were all characterized by sporadic or prolonged violence. In different cases, the violence occurred due to citizens’ dissatisfaction with the preparation for elections by election management bodies; from nomination and imposition of candidates for electoral positions by political parties; allegations of election manipulation and rigging by electoral bodies; outcomes and results of elections; and the execution of violent tactics by security agents to manage election disputes, among other reasons. Most often, violence results in the absence of, or when grievance mechanisms are compromised.
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